Gender critical feminism is a misnomer. There is nothing critical about what they do.

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“Gender critical feminism is a misnomer. There is nothing critical about what they do. Critical relates to intervention. It’s not negative. Critical theory is inquiry into taken for granted presumptions in order to imagine a different world.” Judith Butler #LSEAHRCGender
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Shocked to find that the LSE didn't extend an invitation to FWR to this event that happened earlier today

Transnational anti-gender politics and resistance

As 'anti-gender' movements become more prominent globally, we ask Judith Butler and feminist activist Tooba Syed to share histories and forms of resistance.

What might feminist, queer and decolonial forms of resistance teach us about diverse forms of 'anti-gender' backlash? How can we generate political solidarity to counter 'anti-gender' mobilisations across different contexts? Our keynote speakers will reflect on political, epistemic and ethical interventions and open up for discussion with the audience.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/02/202402221730/politics

For those who cant wait to be (re) educated available to watch at

"Gender critical feminism is a misnomer. There is nothing critical about what they do. Critical relates to intervention. It’s not negative. Critical theory is inquiry into taken for granted presumptions in order to imagine a different world.”

She is not doing a great job of criticising the gender critical position that she thinks she is going by her own definition.

What is the GC position if not trying to make a positive intervention? Doesn’t Judith agree that stopping children and teens from a lifetime of harmful medication that results in crumbling bones and loss of fertility and sexual pleasure seems quite a positive aim? That encouraging children to accept and love their bodies and not conform to regressive and sexist stereotypes is positive?

Moreover, GC imagines a world where women retain their safety, dignity and privacy along with their very hard fought rights to single sex spaces and a world where men don’t take their sports medals or political short lists or insist on sexually assaulted woman submit to the coercive control of men with a fetish. Does Judith truly believe those are negative aims?